Unclassified road crash in Medway ME5 on 5 July 2007 at 16:00 involving a Mazda 323
A Mazda 323 and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Medway at 16:00 on Thursday 5 July 2007. The 19-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa and a 39-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jul 2007
- Thursday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda 323 and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34462, longitude 0.52573, in the ME5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chatham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wayfield & Weeds Wood, Medway, ME5 0NG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Medway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007460043621
- Council area
- Medway
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 1996.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Medway, 3 December 1996
10 m awayRef 199646ME05815
Serious
Peugeot 3008 crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 27 May 2021
10 m awayRef 2021461053495
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Medway, 23 December 1995
22 m awayRef 199546ME00322
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Medway, 22 August 1998
22 m awayRef 199846ME15141
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Medway, 12 August 1994
22 m awayRef 1994460325688
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Medway, 17 August 2017
27 m awayRef 2017460214511
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 323
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,489 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2007460043621 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Medway road accident statistics for 2007.